This is just too funny. Clear Channel WASH-FM (97.1) in Washington DC goes All-Christmas right around now; but this year, another station hit the air with a like format before they did.
This is just too funny. Clear Channel WASH-FM (97.1) in Washington DC goes All-Christmas right around now; but this year, another station hit the air with a like format before they did.
Even better, it was a GAS station!
In Springfield VA, about a dozen miles SW of DC city, there is a Shell station that does one of those animated, choreographed music and light shows, broadcasting the music over 100.7 FM via a short-throw low-power transmitter. If you are stuck at the traffic light, you get to tune in and enjoy the show. Around 200 feet down the road, the signal fizzles out and WZBA Westminster MD fringes in underneath.
No one is going to hear this 'station' beyond the large intersection it covers, and when WASH-FM hits the air, it will still own that Christmas audience. But as they say on Comments pages all over the web, "Ha ha! First n00bs!"
Viva Low-power Radio!
Love the report on the radio gas station. That station manager or owner must be a genius to have low power radio.
Hey I just had an idea for low power TV, and The Crow might already be doing this on his TV station, but you could broadcast a Christmas light show on TV instead of putting lights on the house.